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Author
Series
Millennium volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Lisbeth Salander--the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo--has disappeared ... And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights. Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who lived and died on the streets of Stockholm--a man who does not exist in any official records and whose garbled last words hinted at possible damaging...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack's daughter and her boyfriend.
Author
Series
Millennium volume 5
Language
English
Description
Lisbeth Salander has been forged by a brutal childhood and horrific abuse. And repeated attempts on her life. Confinement to the secure unit of a women's prison is intended as a punishment. Instead, Lisbeth finds herself in relative safety. Flodberga is a failing prison, effectively controlled by the inmates, and for a computer hacker of her exceptional gifts there are no boundaries. Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives...
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Joona Linna volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past.
Author
Series
Millennium volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Two reporters responsible for a sex-trafficking exposé are murdered, and the fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander, prompting the magazine's publisher, Mikael Blomkvist, to launch his own investigation to vindicate Salander.
8) The believer
Author
Series
Klara Walldeen volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A New York City trendspotter returns to her Stockholm borough home to discover the truth about her missing brother's alleged ties to ISIS, while a human rights researcher discovers she may be unwittingly contributing to the dark agendas of powerful forces.
9) Cop killer
Author
Series
Martin Beck mystery volume 9
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
10) The chosen
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman volume 5
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mystery volume 4
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Inspector Van Veeteren investigates the murder of Ryszard Malik, a man with few enemies, and disovers that a woman from Malik's past expressed a dying wish that her daughter extract revenge for a secret crime.
12) Stockholm noir
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Stockholm Noir joins Copenhagen Noir and Helsinki Noir in powerfully representing the Akashic Noir series in Scandinavia. --Publisher
Author
Series
Martin Beck mystery volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series," together known as "The story of crime." "The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strongarm police work and sheer brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds...
14) Roseanna
Author
Series
Martin Beck mystery volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of...
Author
Publisher
Evets Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church's immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church's time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman and his improbable...
16) Borderline
Author
Series
Annika Bengtzon volume 9
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Annika Bengtzon is back at Kvällspressen's Stockholm offices after three years as the newspaper's Washington, DC correspondent. One afternoon, a young woman is found dead behind a nursery school in a Stockholm suburb. She is the fourth victim with the same characteristics: a young mother, stabbed from behind. In the editorial offices of Kvällspressen they sense a serial killer, but Annika dismisses it as a wild fantasy. Meanwhile, her husband Thomas...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one...
Author
Series
William Sandberg volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The days that change your life forever start off like all the others. One winter evening just before Christmas, Stockholm is plunged into a sudden, citywide blackout. Radio, internet, phone service--all cut out simultaneously, cloaking the city in darkness and silence. On the pitch-black streets, a young woman carries a message for her estranged father. It may be the key to reversing the blackout and preventing further attacks. But someone powerful...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A timely and arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a...
20) The golden cage
Author
Series
Faye Adelheim volume 1
Language
English
Description
Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him, waitressing by day and working as his strategist by night. With the business soaring, Faye and Jack have a baby, and Faye finds herself at home, caring for their daughter, wealthier than she ever imagined,...
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